The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at the College of Southern Nevada

This is the last concert scheduled of CSN's fall semester!

YouTube video by The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: November 10th - 16th, 2025

Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Northern Taurids tonight & the Leonids next Monday morning ☄️
• Jupiter rising late evening
• When to expect the crescent moon in the dawn skies 🌙
• How to spot Saturn with the naked eye 🪐

#LVNightSkyWeekly #CSN

November’s theme is Exoplanetary Astronomy, and we have a brand new show debuting at 8:00pm called, “A New Blue - The Exoplanet Movie! 🌍✨

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CSN students receive FREE admission this first Friday, November, 7th.

#DaleEtheridgePlanetarium #November2025 #CSN

YouTube video by The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: November 3rd - 9th, 2025

Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• NightSky adjustments as clocks fall back an hour
• Precession & pole stars
• Debunking astrology
• Saturn near Capricorn & Sagittarius
• Best phases & methods for optimal lunar observations 🌗🔭

We’ll have a special showing of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon tomorrow, Nov. 3rd at 11:00am at the Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN.

Get your tickets here: csnplanetarium.square.site/special-events 🎟️✨🌑🌈

#PinkFloyd #TDSOTM #DaleEtheridgePlanetarium

College campuses are closed today for the holiday. Wishing everyone a good Nevada Day & we’ll be back tomorrow 11/1 for the last day of our spooky astronomy themed program! 👻🕸️🦇🎃

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A Super-Earth Candidate Less Than 20 Light-Years Away Astronomers have discovered a ready-to-image super-Earth candidate, named GJ 251c, less than 20 light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered a ready-to-image super-Earth candidate less than 20 light-years away.
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Nice! I think there shall be snacks. 😊

Join us if you dare. . . for a very Spooky Open Mic session this Thursday, October 30th from 5pm - 8pm at the planetarium (S146) at CSN’s North Las Vegas campus! 👻🦇🕸️

Hosted by @csncreativewritingclub @nativeheritagealliancecsn and @csn_fineartsclub

@csncoyote.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 27th - November 2nd, 2025

Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Comet Lemon 2025 🍋
• The Swan comet near Saturn 🪐🦢
• Our extrasolar visitor, comet 3I/Atlas & its scientific value
• The Europa Clipper’s possible path through 3I/Atlas’ tail
• Which planets are visible when

Catch a free spooky planetarium show Monday, 10/27 @ 11am with “Phantom of the Universe - The Hunt for Dark Matter.”

Check out the flyer below for more info. & for our other Fall 2025 semester showtimes!

Open to all CSN students ✨

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#CollegeofSouthernNevada
#Fall2025

Join us this Saturday for a rock hunt hosted by CSN’s Native Heritage Alliance. 🪨

We’ll meet at 10:00am by the planetarium lobby in S building, the South entrance of CSN’s NLV campus.

We’ll carpool and return to the same spot around 1:30pm.

Please check the flyer to see what supplies to bring.

We have two showings of Pink Floyd’s 50th anniversary planetarium show for The Dark Side of the Moon coming up! 🌒🌈✨

Thursday, Oct. 23rd, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Monday, Nov. 3rd, 2025 @ 11:00am

Grab your tix at the link below! 🎟️

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#PinkFloyd #DarkSideoftheMoon

YouTube video by The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 20th - 26th, 2025

Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• The Orionids meteor shower peaking & where to find the radiant
• The Summer Triangle is still visible!
• The Northern Cross & Cygnus the Swan
• Jupiter near Gemini’s stars Castor & Pollux

#LVNightSkyWeekly ✨

Close-up photo of a star cluster, full of bright blue and white stars with four-way diffraction spikes. In the distant background are hundreds of smaller, redder stars which are not a part of the cluster.

#PPOD: This is NGC 6397, a star cluster that glitters with the light from hundreds of thousands of stars. At 7,800 light-years away, this is one of the closest globular clusters to Earth. 🧪 🔭

Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)

YouTube video by The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 13th - 19th, 2025

Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Ophiuchus & the keystone of Hercules
• Globular Clusters
• Where to find the dwarf planet/largest asteroid, Ceres
• Draco’s tail between the dippers
• The giraffe-shaped constellation Camelopardalis

#LVNightSky ✨

Join us for our free Meditation Mondays series tomorrow, Oct. 13th @ 12:30pm!

No need to bring a yoga mat, this will be a seated meditation in the planetarium’s dome theater. ✨

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In our latest #SETILive #podcast, @planetarypan.bsky.social learned that the potential biomass for Saturn's moon, Titan, according to @aaffholder.bsky.social, is very small — only a couple of kilograms, if it existed at all. Listen to the full interview: www.seti.org/outreach/set... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Dimensions of Realism: Beyond the Extracurricular Exhibition opened on June 27, and closes this Saturday, in the Art Gallery at the City of Henderson’s Debra March Center of Excellence.

A special Gallery Talk and Reception will take place tonight, Thursday, October 9, 2025, starting at 6 pm

Visit us in costume this October & take home a free poster from NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors. 👻🎃🕸️🦇

#SpookyAstronomy #DaleEtheridgePlanetarium

YouTube video by The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 6th - 12th, 2025

Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Tonight’s Full Harvest Super Moon
• The science behind the term ‘super moon’
• Spotting Neptune with a telescope or possibly binoculars
• The difference between an Ice Giant & a Gas Giant

#LVNightSkyWeekly 🌕

This October’s theme is Spooky Astronomy! 👻🦇

Check out what’s playing on Fridays & Saturdays at the planetarium, and visitors in costume will get to choose a free 11 x 17” poster from NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors!

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#DaleEtheridgePlanetarium #October

We’re having a special event for Moon Night with @lasvegas astronomy this Saturday and would like you to join us!

Register for your free tix for “Extraterrestrial Postcards & How to Read Them,” one of our moon shows, STEM activities, telescopes & more:

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YouTube video by The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: September 29th - October 5th, 2025

Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky:

• The moon in Sagittarius’ teapot
• Moon Night Oct. 4th & our special event for it
• Current view of Saturn’s rings & why Galileo thought Saturn had “ears” in its nodes
• Cosmic objects to view near Orion, including stellar nurseries ✨🌖🪐

Check out a special showing of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” 50th anniversary planetarium show the evening of our special event for International Observe the Moon Night Saturday, Oct. 4th at 8pm! 🌚🌈✨

Also enjoy telescope observations w/ LVAS 🔭

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“Extraterrestrial Postcards and How to Read Them” 👽☄️

In conjunction with our special event for IOTMN, UNLV Geoscience PhD candidate Sierra Ramsey will be giving a special presentation in the dome at 4:00pm & you’ll get to touch a real Martian meteorite!

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Join our event for NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night, Saturday, Oct. 4th! 🌓

Free moon shows, STEM activities, a Martian meteorite, telescopes with LVAS & more!

Register for one of our free Moon-themed planetarium shows here:

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#NASA #IOTMN

Webb took a look at the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive, and active star-forming region in our galaxy, located only a few hundred light years from our central black hole. Why is it so much more active than the rest of the galactic center? https://go.nasa.gov/46lurcz https://pbs.twim

Ferric Hydroxysulfate on Mars Reveals Geochemical Secrets In a groundbreaking study poised to deepen our understanding of Martian geochemistry, a team of planetary scientists has meticulously characterized ferric hydroxysulfate minerals on the surface of

Utilizing state-of-the-art spectroscopic analyses and in situ measurements from various #Mars missions, researchers have illuminated the mineralogical composition and formation processes of iron-bearing sulfate compounds. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Learn more: scienmag.com/ferric-hydro...